Post-Vaccine Tremor Fakers Are Being Publicly, Delightfully Trolled
The videos have become vessels of nostalgia for 2000s movies, dated pop culture moments, and pretty much anything you’ve ever seen shake.
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Over the last several days, Twitter has been overrun by a string of mostly white women posting videos of themselves purportedly experiencing tremors and seizure-like spasms after getting the covid vaccine. Naturally, they were prompted to do so by none other than Elon Musk (a man who’s called for Anthony Fauci to be prosecuted and is clearly a highly credible source for information) after he tweeted on Friday, “I had major side effects from my second booster shot. Felt like I was dying for several days. Hopefully, no permanent damage, but I dunno.” I dunno indeed.
His tweet was met with videos of people supposedly experiencing post vaccine full body shakes, captioned with “Thanks Pfizer” or “Thanks Moderna.” Bogus claims from anti-vaxxers aren’t new, of course, and the transparent purpose of these videos is to spread further misinformation about covid vaccines. But it’s rare that we receive misinformation in a manner so distinctly, dare I say, hilarious, and Twitter has responded as you might expect, taking all of this as seriously as it deserves to be taken. (To be clear, I am very concerned about vaccine misinformation and its deadly impacts! But it’s impossible to watch these videos and not chuckle at the sheer stupidity of it all.)
To start, I give you this resurfaced video of a woman supposedly experiencing post-vaccine tremors in 2021:
And this new viral video shared last week: